Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-26
GENERAL NEWS.

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The plaintiff in a suit against a CONNER
cial agency at Montreal was awarded $2,.
600 damages upon showing that his business
had deem iujuriously affected by false IN
formation furnished by the defendants tc
one of their customers. .
Rev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, well
known Connecticut clergyman, has been
ousted from the pulpit of the Independent
Presbyterian church, at Savannah, Georgia,
because his views with regard to the negro
were too liberal to please the majority OF
bis congregation. .
A wagon in which four children named
Shut were riding was struck by an engine
on the Chicago, Burlington d Quincy road,
near Orion, Illinois, and two of the children
were killed.
A general fight occurred Sunday, in col
ored church at Salem. New jersey. Two
men were shot and seriously injured.
The action of the Union Pacific road in
shortening the time between Omaha and
San Francisco has irritated the rival lines,
and it is likely to result in war IN trans
continental passenger rates.
The Wabash railway formally withdrew,
Monday, from the Chicago and st. Louis
passenger agreement, and an era OF low
fares between the two cities may be expected
in the near future.
The execution of the anarchists has so
thoroughly disguised Mr.. George Francis
Train that he declares he will leave the coun-
try, never to return. He is particularly iu-
dig1iant because the right of free speech has
been threatened, and yet there is no citizen
of this country who has less reason to COM
plain than George Francis on that score.
A Washington dispatch states that Don M.
Dickinson. of Michigan, has notified the
president that he will accept the position of
postmaster general.
OF the rioters who were arrested in Lon
don, Sunday. many have been fined, while
others have been sentenced to from four to
six months imprisonment at hard labor.
The building of the University of Agricul-
ture at Brussels was destroyed by fire Sun
day night.
A party of Kansas City business men is
making a tour of Mexico for the purpose of
studying the wants and resources of the
country, in order that proper measures may
be adopted for increasing the direct trade
between Mexico and Kansas City.
Following the example of Germany,
Spain has seized the island of Perejil, near
Ceuta.
In his annual report to the secretary of
the navy, Commodore Wilson, chief of the
bureau of construction and repair. speaks in
terms of praise of the work that is now 60
ing on in the department., and INDUCES in
bright dreams of the future. In order that
these dreams may be realized he asks for
liberal appropriations.
So,,o wow, eancotionol 4oet;poopy 1nos IN
troduced in Chicago in the case of the
California Insurance company against the
Lambert Il Bishop Wire-Fence company. of
Joliet. Suit was brought by the plaintiff to
the proportion of the insurance
money paid the defendants after the burning
of their mill. The plaintiff called James
Whyte, formerly superintendent of the mill,
to the witness-stand, and he testified that
John Lambert, the president of the wire
company, had given him $4,000, in stock, to
burn the mill, and that he had carried cut
his part of the contract.
Twenty thousand strangers visited Lexing-
ton, Kentucky, Wednesday, to witness the
ceremony of unwilling the statue of John
@. Breckinridge. The Grafton of the day
was delivered by Hon. J. G. s. Blackburn,
and speeches were made by Senator Beck
and Governor Buckner.
Receiver Dyer has taken possession of what
is known as the Temple block at Salt Lake
City, on which the Mormon temple, the
hall, and the large tabernacle
stand.
Lieutenant Emory H. Taunt, who accom-
panied the Greedy relief expedition, is TO he
tried by a naval court martial at New York
on charge of drunkenness and absenting
himself from his ship without permission.
The next house of representatives will con-
The National Fishery association, in ses-
sion at New York Wednesday, adopted reso-
utiols calling for protection against the
of foreign fish, and for such
as will secure to American fisher
men the same rights in foreign ports that
foreign vessels enjoy in our harbors.
William Aimison. the president, and
Charles Gamewell, the second vice presi-
dent, of the International Typographical
union, have COM to Chicago for the p1r-
pose of investigating the printers' strike.
The strikers assert hat the aim of the WISH
tors is to aid the local union and not TO act
3s arbitrators, and MIR. Andrew McNally
says that the association of employers will
not treat with them at all.
The work of laying the cable road on Ran
iolph street between Dearborn and La Sale
streets, Chicago, was begun Thursday.
Representatives of the National Fedora
ion of Miners and of the Knights of Labor
who have been in joint session at Colum-
BUS, Ohio, advise the holding of national
of the representatives of both
Fabulous reports keep coming in of the
discovery of wonderfully rich gold ledge in
Arizona. Some of the quartz is said to have
yielded 100000 to the ton. These stories
may be true, but the chances are thousand
10 one that they are not.
Mr.. Sparks management of the land
office was very unpopular in the west, and
it is not surprising to learn that there was
public celebration at Mandan, Dakota, when
The news of his resignation was received
there.
The National Woman's Christian Temper
ance union convention at Nashville added
by law to the constitution of the convention